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Neural Alpha

AI Native Investing.

Neural Alpha is a research and technology firm building AI‑native investment systems — where AI is the operating system, not a tool bolted onto a human process.

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What we do

We build the systems that do the investing — research, decisions and risk in one loop — and we hold them to the standard of a professional desk.

Systems

AI as the operating system

Research, decision-making and risk control run through one AI-native system. People set the constraints and own the outcome; the system does the work.

Markets

Built for public markets

We focus on liquid public equities, starting with the US and Hong Kong — where information moves fastest and the feedback is real.

Discipline

Every decision on the record

Each decision is recorded with its reasoning, its risk limits and its outcome, so the system can be audited, attributed and improved.

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Team

Investing, AI engineering and fintech — and the habit of asking the right questions.

Carl Cai

Co-founder & CEO · CFA

Fifteen years trading global markets: co-managed several hundred million USD in overseas equities at a leading insurance asset manager with several hundred billion USD under management, and was the youngest chief strategist at the Hong Kong investment-banking arms of two major Chinese banks. M.S., Lancaster University.

Roy Fan

Co-founder & CTO

Former CTO of a unicorn-stage AI company and head of engineering at a major consumer internet platform, where he led the team that built its LLM and knowledge-graph stack. Serial entrepreneur. B.S. Computer Science, Tsinghua University.

Robert Feng

Co-founder & COO

Fintech and venture background: a leading China-focused venture fund, a Southeast Asian fintech unicorn and a global technology company; entrepreneur-in-residence at a leading venture firm. MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Alex Dong

Chief Strategy Advisor

One of the few people who have both shipped frontier foundation models and run money — previously at a frontier LLM lab, a major mutual fund manager and a leading venture firm. B.S. Computer Science and Finance, Tsinghua University.

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Contact

We are a small team. If you would like to talk, write to us.